Greg Williamson wrote:
Our tests -- very much oriented at postGIS found Oracle to be between 5 and 15% _faster_ depending on the specifics of the task. We decided to go with postgres given the price difference (several hundred thousand dollars for Oracle in the configuration we needed vs. zip for postgres -- we already had trained postgres DBAs).
Can always throw the licensing savings toward larger hardware too; $100K buys a pretty big server nowadays. At the FAA's talk about their internal deployment of PostgreSQL: https://www.postgresqlconference.org/2010/east/talks/faa_airports_gis_and_postgresql
They were reporting that some of their difficult queries were dramatically faster on PostgreSQL; I vaguely recall one of them was 100X the speed it ran under Oracle Spatial. It was crazy. As always this sort of thing is very workload dependent. There are certainly queries (such as some of the ones from the TPC-H that big DB vendors optimize for) that can be 100X faster on Oracle too.
-- Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant US Baltimore, MD PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx www.2ndQuadrant.us -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
